I have over 20 years of experience in business operations, leadership, fiscal management, budgeting, sales, capital planning, project management, and facility management.

My risk is based on how influenced I can be by experienced RE brokers/investors and my attorney on how to invest this properly.

All I know I'm hungry and i want to do this thank you for your time @Edwin Solivan if you’re still out there, it would be interesting to hear where you are today after that first REIA meeting, including where that meeting led you and how it influenced your real estate investing endeavors, for better or worse   

You can have some influence on this call if you try to develop that relationship.You have to notice subtle things to do this.

Home buyers are very easily visually influenced.

Some may think they can controll some of the matters that may arise, and maybe they can influence someone, but it's not necessary as usually family issues will eventually wash out to close probate.Just from a marketing stand point, you need to identify the center of influence, that may or may not be the executor of an estate, siblings may have odd relationships.

In King County neighborhoods and school districts dramatically influence the value, so if its more than a half mile away it may not be a great comp, and will need some adjustment.6.

Two oldies that started it all......Think and Grow Rich, and How To Win Friends And Influence People.

Nor are the additional influences a simple checklist.What we seem to be able to pull from the two posts:1

From the neighborhood activist side of things, my plan is to use my influence as a land lord to imrove the neighborhood through cleaning up my own properties, encouraging other homeowners and land lords to clean up their own properties-lead by example.